Folding extension display-frame for dress goods



(No Model.)

H. S. BOGY.

FOLDING EXTENSION DISPLAY FRAME FOR DRESS GOODS.

No. 424,262. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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HENRY S. BOGY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FOLDING EXTENSION DISPLAY-FRAME FOR DRESS GOODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,262, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed October 12, 1889. Serial No. 326,761. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BOGY, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Folding Extension Display-Frames for Dress Goods, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an adjustable extension display-frame that can be easily elevated or depressed to accord with the respective requirements of the goods to be displayed, andinclined to the most advantageousposition to set off the goods to the greatest advantage; and the invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure I is a perspective front View of the frame set up for use, the extension-frame slightly elevated. Fig. II is a like view of the back of the frame with the extension closed and the frame folded flat for carriage or shipping. Fig. 111 is a transverse section, and shows the tongue and matched sliding attachment of the adjustable extension-frame to the main frame. Fig. IV is an enlarged detail of side pieces of the main and extension frames, and shows the spring-actuated bolt that holds the extension-frame in either of its adjusted elevated positions, with part broken away to show the action of the springcatch; and Fig. V is an enlarged detail perspective view of the matched tongue hinged joint of the adjustable brace back-stay.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the side pieces, and 2 the cross-ties, of the platform-base of the frame.

3 is the center piece,whose extension-tongue 4, integral therewith, runs back from the main platform sufficiently to support the hinged end of the brace back-stay 5, which hinge is constructed by the pivot-pin 6, seated in the bifurcated end 7 of said tongue and in the tongue 8 at the foot of said back-stay. A foot-piece 9 is secured beneath the said rear extension or tongue of the center piece 3 to hold it up on line with the balance of the piece. The front of the plat-form is faced by a toe-strip 10, that covers the forward joints of the parts by which it is constructed. The

individual parts of said platform may be secured together by screws, nails, or by any other suitable means.

11 represents the side pieces of the adjustable show-frame, the foot crossetie 12 of which is secured to the side pieces of the platform by the hinges 13. The middle cross-tie 14 is, like the foot-tie, preferably mortised to the side pieces, and mortised to both cross'ties is an intervening longitudinal center bar 15, whose upper end is furnished at its back with a series of serrations 16, into which the bevel upper end 17 of the brace back-stay 5 engages to adjustably hold the show-frame to the elevation or incline to which it is desired to set it to show off to the best advantage the goods displayed thereon. The shoulders 18 at the foot of said back-stay immediately above the tongue are cut beveling to allow full pivotal play to said back-stay while adjusting.

19 represents tongue-strips that are inserted in and project inwardly from the side pieces 11 of the show-frame above the middle crosstie 14.

20 represents the side pieces of the extension-frame that slides within the main frame, which side pieces are provided with channelgrooves 21, in which the projecting tongues 19 of the side pieces of the main frame engage. The lower cross-tie 22 of said extension-frame is preferably secured to the side pieces of said frame by tenon-mortises, but may be secured by any suitable means. The cap cross-tie 23 is preferably secured to the upper terminals of the side pieces of said extension-frame by tenon-mortises, but may be otherwise secured.

24 represents a spring locking-key that is the spiral push-spring 31 pushes, which spring is mounted on the stem of said locking-key Within the tube 25.

Perforations 32 are provided at certain intervals in theinner edges of the side pieces of the main frame above the cross-tie 14, and when the extension-frame has been elevated or depressed until the spring-key registers with the nearest of the perforations 32 that provides the right elevation of said extensionframe to show the goods to the best advantage then the key springs to its seat in said perforation and locks the adjusted elevation of the extension-frame. Now it will be seen that as the adjustable back-stay 5 and its means of locking the adjustment of the inclined show-frame is free from set-screws and cast sockets, &c., that are liable to break or get out of working order, there is butlittle,

.if any, possibility of the working devices of the frame getting out of order. It will also be seen that not only the back-stay provides the means for the inclined adjustment, but also the extension-frame provides the means for altitudinal adjustment; and, again, the frame is so constructed that it can be utilized for exhibits on both sides; and, still again, the folding devices of the frame are such that it folds fiat, as shown in Fig. II, so as on the one hand to go into the least possible compass and on the other hand the parts folding fiat together are in no danger of straining under the superincumbent weight that may be packed thereon for shipping. Thus when shipping it goes in less compass and less danger of injury than frames that cannot be close folded; and, lastly, its freedom from all metallic attachments that project in the lines of contact with the goods exhibited thereon removes the danger incurred by the transfer of rust from said metal parts to the show fabrics that are in contact with it. The toe-strip 10 in front of the platform projects and forms a ledge above the side pieces 1 and center piece 3 of said platform, and thus prevents the forward slipping of goods off the platform. The back-stay that braces the show-frame when said frame is elevated to a steeper incline acts as a follower and adjusts itself, falling into one serration after another to lock the adjustment, and when setting back the frame it requires but to lift said back-stay out of its locking-seat and let the frame down to a less steep incline, which avoids the labor of adjusting setscrews, &c.

I claim as my invention 1. In a display-frame for dress goods, &c., the combination of the platform-base with the rearwardly-extending center tongue 4, that has a bifurcated end, the adjustable main show-frame hinged to said platform, the serrated catch-bar 15, that intervenes between and couples the cross-ties into which it is framed, the back-stay brace 5, with its foottongue that works within the bifurcated end of the tongue 4, and the pivot-pin 6, on which said back-stay pivots, the said back-stay being provided with a bevel edge at its upper end, that engages, respectively, indifferent serrations of the bar 15, to lock the inclined adjustment of the show-frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a display-frame for dress goods, the, the combination of the platform-base, the center tongue 4, with its bifurcated end that projects from the rear of said platform-base, the main adjustable show-frame hinged to said platform, the serrated catch-bar 15, the backstay brace 5, whose foot-tongue pivots within the bifurcations of the tongue 4, and whose bevel upper end engages in the serrations 16 of the catch-bar to lock the adjustment, the tongue-and-groove matched extension-frame,

' the propulsion spring-key 24, the inner edges of he side pieces of the main show-frame being provided with perforations, in which said spring-key enters to lock the elevated adj ustment of the extension-frame, and the toestrip 10, that prevents the slipping of the show goods from the platform, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY S. BOGY. In presence of- BENJN. A. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT. 

